Cocktails
The spirit of Lent
If you must forego wine, try cocktails instead
Hail Mary
A Bloody Mary is perfect at almost any time of day and in every kind of weather
Colour conundrum
A lasting love-affair with Chartreuse
Cool enough for Cary
Christopher Pincher offers some simple rules to stick to for cocktail-drinking
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
